Kauko Helovirta

Kauko Helovirta

Born: October 21, 1924
Died: September 13, 1997
in Juupajoki, Finland

Movies for Kauko Helovirta...

Visa Mäkinen - My movie
Title: Visa Mäkinen - My movie
Character: himself
Released: February 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.
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Title: Kotikatu
Character: Martti Mäkimaa
Released: August 24, 1995
Type: TV
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Back to the USSR
Title: Back to the USSR
Character: Suojeluskuntapäällikkö
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
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Mestari
Title: Mestari
Character: Taksikuski
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
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Akallinen mies
Title: Akallinen mies
Character: Ovaskainen
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: Movie
The farmer now has found a wife.
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Yön saalistajat
Title: Yön saalistajat
Released: October 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
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Vapaa duunari Ville-Kalle
Title: Vapaa duunari Ville-Kalle
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 24, 1984
Type: Movie
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Akaton mies
Title: Akaton mies
Character: Ovaskaisen isäntä
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Farmer wants a wife.
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Likainen puolitusina
Title: Likainen puolitusina
Released: August 27, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of men arriving to their military refresher training are tasked with finding a lost football bomb meant for a film shoot.
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For the Matches
Title: For the Matches
Character: Constable Torvelainen
Released: October 12, 1980
Type: Movie
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
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Mitäs me sankarit
Title: Mitäs me sankarit
Character: Juhani Särkimäki
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
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Natalia
Title: Natalia
Character: Paavo Jyrkänne
Released: December 14, 1979
Type: Movie
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Ruskan jälkeen
Title: Ruskan jälkeen
Character: Nestori Malinen
Released: August 31, 1979
Type: Movie
It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
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Piilopirtti
Title: Piilopirtti
Character: kiinteistönvälittäjä Kosonen
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Title: Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Character: Asiakas rautakaupassa
Released: August 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
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An Unknown Friend
Title: An Unknown Friend
Character: Tohtori Oiva Berg
Released: January 20, 1978
Type: Movie
The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
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The Year of the Hare
Title: The Year of the Hare
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
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Viimeinen savotta
Title: Viimeinen savotta
Character: Loimaan-Roope
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
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Meiltähän tämä käy
Title: Meiltähän tämä käy
Character: vuorineuvos Wille Wållberg
Released: October 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin
Title: Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin
Character: nimismies Korpela
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.
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Kreivi
Title: Kreivi
Character: Leilan isä, maatilan isäntä
Released: February 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.
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Akseli and Elina
Title: Akseli and Elina
Character: Otto Kivivuori
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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Pilvilinna
Title: Pilvilinna
Character: Annika's Father
Released: November 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Title: Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Character: Kiilasniemi
Released: September 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
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Here, Beneath the North Star
Title: Here, Beneath the North Star
Character: Otto Kivivuori
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
Title: Johan nyt on markkinat!
Character: Pertti Paaso
Released: March 31, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Parisian Tie
Title: The Parisian Tie
Released: September 5, 1965
Type: Movie
A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.
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Turkasen tenava!
Title: Turkasen tenava!
Character: Erkki Kuitu
Released: April 12, 1963
Type: Movie
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Villin Pohjolan kulta
Title: Villin Pohjolan kulta
Character: Markus
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A western set in the "Wild North".
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Ihana seikkailu
Title: Ihana seikkailu
Character: Anders von Holden
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
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Vaarallista vapautta
Title: Vaarallista vapautta
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
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The Boys
Title: The Boys
Character: Fritz Mayer
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
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Pikku suorasuu
Title: Pikku suorasuu
Character: Kaarlo Heinonen
Released: March 9, 1962
Type: Movie
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Me
Title: Me
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1961
Type: Movie
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Title: Sven Tuuva the Hero
Character: Duncker
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
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Kesäyön lapset
Title: Kesäyön lapset
Character: Antti Kiikka
Released: January 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Antti Kiikka has a one night thing with a local girl. Antti goes away and marries a girl from another village. Later that local girl delivers a baby, but she never tells who is the father. 20 years later daughter of Antti Kiikka fells in love with a guy without knowing that they quite likely are a brother and a sister.
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Härmästä poikia kymmenen
Title: Härmästä poikia kymmenen
Character: Janne Koivula
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Based upon the popular folk song, the film tells the story of two men who want to test the new Sheriff, who has new policies to put in place.